We mentioned above that the U.S.S. Palos had left port to search for the boat that loft the steamer Craiglands shortly after her collision with the barque Chinaman, before the telegraphic news had been received that four of the missing men had arrived at Gutzlaff in safety. 'We omitted to add that the: Customs washing had also left' to bring en to Shanghai, She returned to port Into Inst night. She reports that arrived at the Gutzlaff light at 1.10 m. yesterday morning, and immediately sent a boat on shore for the four men to come on board, fearing that rough weather might come on, The boat returned soon afterwards, bringing Francis Clarke and Poter Hallstrom, third engineer and second mate of the steamship Craiglands, and David Marshall and Charles Willis, boatswain and apprentice of the barque Chinaman, and tso Chinese who had taken them from Elliott Island to Gutzlaff. At 6.30 a.m., the Kwashing left for Elliott Island arriving there at 8.20. The body of Mr. 'William Burton, late chief engi Craiglands, was' found bu grave-yard near the bench. It was exhume ped in canvas, and brought to Shang At 9.50 a.m., the Kwashing left the Inland, and about an hour afterwards she met the U.S.S. Palos, and the two vessels returned to Shanghai together.
We have interviewed David Marshall, the boatswain of the Chinaman, and he has given us a detailed account of the experiences of the occupants of the boat from the time they loft the Craiglands till their arrival in Shanghai, but owing to the lateness of the hour at which our int inated, and the nature of some of the statements made by him, Wo shall at present only give a seminary of hia narrative, anit will doubtless before many days have passed be given officially on oth' To use his own, words, he otates that on reaching the deck of' the lands, he "never saw such a state of things in all his life, as regards clewing is and getting the boats ready to Moro than two hours, he says, elapsed before the first boat, (in which he This was the boat, and h that " five minutes after it had left the ship, it was water-logged. We turned back, and called out that the boat was filling with water, and someone on the steamer told us to return on board. In our eagerness to save the. lives of those on the Chinaman, we said that we would try to fotch her, and asked for the jolly-boat to be lowered. We wont off in the direction where we thought the wreck was, but were driven away by the wind and tide, three of us pulling and two baling out the water. The water was too much for us, and after a talk amongst ourselves, we decided for all of us to bale, We had alight ina lantern, which we put in a bucket for safety, but the water ose over the bucket, washing the light wut We could see the Jights of the steamer, and tried to get back to her, but could not. Everything seemed to,'be against us, Iauppose it was the wind and tide. Some time afterwards, we saw another white light, which we took to be that of the vessel that had anchored near the Chinaman in the morning. We tried to pull for it, as we thought, but could not get nearer to it. The tide and the wind swept us away altogether. The water in the boat was again too much for us, and we all set to baling. At about six o'clock on Saturday morning, we found ourselves four or five miles from Gutzlaff, with the tide sweeping us away towards land, which afterwards proved to be Elliott' Island. Early in the morning, as'soon as daylight broke, the chief engineer, Mr. Burton, commenced to be queer, saying all sorts of strange things; but he kept baling out the water like a man all the time until within a quarter of an hour of his death, which occurred just before we reached the Island, about two o'clock in the afternoon. "We could sve he got weaker all day, but he would go on until he was completely exhausted, and we then laid him on the fore thwarts of the boat. When we were within four or five miles of the Island, we met a native boat with five or six \China boys on board. At first they seemed afraid to come near us, but when we waved our hands they came alongside, took hold of our painter, and towed us to the Island. When were taken in tow, Mr. Burton was alive, and he chin-chinned the Chinese, but he was too far gone to speak to us sensibly, and he died soon afterwards. We landed on the Is.and about three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, and mot with a most kind reception, from the inhabitants. They would not let us do anything for ourselves they carried th There are only sev there. The people afterwards wrapped the body in two mats. They took off our wet clothing, gave us some of their clothes to wear while they dried ours, and took us into their houses and fed us like children, Wo were so weak that we could not bury Mr. Burton that day, but on Sunday morning we did so. We slept during the night in a kind of hay-loft, two of us on the floor, and two ina kind of bedstead fixed up' with bamboo. After breakfast on Sunday morning, we buried Mr, Burton. The Chinese took their grave-yard and dug a grave al three feet deep, in which we laid the body, (Stones were put round it and it was then covered with earth. We stayed on the Island all day Sunday and the greater part of Monday. The Chinese did all they possibly could for us. On Monday, an old man, who seemed to be the head man of the village, sent a young man in a boat to the other islands to fetch a larger one than his own, to enable us to leave the Island. The old and young man are now on the Kvashing. They would not let us use their boats, because they thought they were too small for all of us. We left the Island about 3 p.m. on Monday, and arrived off Gutzlail about seven in the evening. We did not land then, because the Chinese said that if we did the guns would be fired at us. We landed at daylight on Tuesday morning, and received every kindness from Mr. and Mre. Bond, the lightkeeper and his wife, and Mr. Boyson, the telegraph clerk. They sent a telegram to Shanghai, and about one o'clock on Wednesday morning this steamer fetched us. While at Gutzlaf I was shivering and felt a little sick, and the good people there gave me some drawers, stockings, and a guernsey frock to wear. My three companions were then all right. The Kwashing took us to Elliott Island, and after we got Mr. Burton's body on board, we came up to Shanghai.
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